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...Like the others, he challenged the committee's constitutional right to ferret out a man's personal politics. "But," he said, "let me break the suspense immediately. I am not a Communist. I never have been, and don't intend to be. I am a Democrat, who in my youth was a Republican. Now if the committee is interested in the reason...
...southwest Pennsylvania fifteen years ago with a set of documents he called the Horn Papers. They were full of surprising new findings about Pennsylvania in the 17005. Soon a series of articles, based on what he said were family diaries, began to appear in the Waynesburg (Pa.) Democrat Messenger. The diaries no longer existed; but Horn explained that he had made careful copies of them...
...activities of movieland Red is a most vicious folly, serving only to keep the Committee itself, which is the real Un-American menace, in the two-inch headlines until it can make itself really dangerous. The victims may then be the colleges or the independent newspapers. Certainly nobody, Democrat or Republican, is safe when Louis B. Mayer, a dear friend a Hearst, has to defend him self against Communist charges...
...eastern Tennessee's McMinn County, on the western roll of the Blue Ridge Mountains, politics is played for keeps, right up to the gunstock. For almost 30 years, McMinn's shootingest politician has been a stocky, grim-faced Democrat named Thomas Burkett Ivins, 63. As a "revenooer," a deputy marshal and McMinn County's sheriff, Burkett Ivins had never been slow on the draw. He had killed seven men-all, it was decided, justifiably. Old Burkett was proud of his pistol prowess; no one in sight of his one good eye was going to outshoot...
...Bulgaria last week, three visiting U.S. Congressmen, Senator Carl Hatch, Democrat, and Representatives John Davis Lodge and Walter H. Judd, Republicans, decided to perform a simple act of reverence that would dramatically assert the traditions of Western civilization...